God's Middle Finger
Book description
From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All, a harrowing travelogue into Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre mountains.
Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet…
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This book was given to me by a friend who traveled the Sierra Madres of Western Mexico. I’d phone him after turning a page on each spine-stiffening episode to screech, “Are you crazy?!”
The landscape envelopes with stark beauty. The glimpses into the lives of the people who try to survive the human dangers helped me understand why families are willing to risk crossing the U.S. border. The human threat, on both sides of “the law” and the natural threat of the rough landscape, makes for a heart-pounding read.
I was sucked in by Richard Grant’s “Whew! We survived that…
This is a non-fiction travelogue deep into the heart of Mexican narco country.
Journalist Richard Grant’s borderline insane self-inflicted quest was to travel through the Sierra Madre mountains, some of the world’s toughest and most dangerous terrain, home to bandits, drug smugglers, opium cultivators, cowboys, folk healers, and hermits.
His adventures are fascinating, entertaining, and hair-raising. One episode in particular, when he was hunted through the night by a couple of Mexicans who seemed bent on killing him for sport, sent chills down my spine.
I recommend this for anyone interested in the outlaws, outcasts, shamans, and the realities of…
From Brian's list on international crime both fiction and nonfiction.
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